I've run a few more tests on the floppy drive, especially on Windows NT
I realise that the errors point to a faulty drive so I have a new one on
order. It has not arrived yet.
I'm not yet convinced that the drive is at fault.
To summarise, I get errors on some of the installation floppies if acce
Further to this problem, I booted CURRENT- 20 October 2002 and mounted the
fixit floppy. Trying "tar cvf test /mnt" gave the usual errors as before.
Mounting the fixit.flp as a memory disk using
mdconfig -a -t vnode -f fixit.flp -u 4
mount -oro /dev/md4 /mnt
and trying tar as before gave no erro
REPOST, previous message may have failed to get through.
I put -z as an illegal option in /boot.config with the intention of
disabling autoboot. The prompt is now displayed, but it does not allow
any keyboard input and does not proceed any further.
(*** don't try this unless you have a way of re
The fixit.flp from the 5.0 DP2 cdrom appears to be unusable. When I
attempt to use it after booting from kern.flp it comes up with errors of
the form:
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 2528 of 2528-2530 (ST0 40 \
ST1 4 ST2 10 cyl 70 hd 0 sec 9)
accompanied by ominous clicking noises from the flo
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Evans) writes:
> : At bootup, boot2 is the program which displays a - sign on the console
> : and if you hit the space bar it comes up with a prompt allowing you
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Le Friday 10 January 2003 20:46, John Baldwin a crit :
> [SNIP]
> > >
> > > I now want to install 5.0-DP2 on ad0s3e so that I can test it for a
> > > while. I have the cdrom and have created boot floppies. I've booted
At bootup, boot2 is the program which displays a - sign on the console
and if you hit the space bar it comes up with a prompt allowing you to
change the drive and partition of the loader program, e.g.
ad(0,e)/boot/loader.
At least that's how it used to work. Nowadays, judging from my current
of O
My current installation is this:
ad0s3a / 500MB
ad0s3e 500MB
ad0s3b 2000MB
ad0s3f /mountpoint1 5000MB
ad0s3g /mountpoint2 1MB
ad0s3h /mountpoint3 4MB
I have -Current on ad0s3a an
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